Archive Report
Archive Report
Changing Tenor of The Negro Protest
Almost overnight “Black Power!” has supplanted “Freedom Now!” as the rallying cry of Negro militancy. With the new slogan, the mood and possibly the direction of the Negro rights movement have undergone profound change. Leaders who demonstrated and went to jail for integration have begun to reject fellow-protesters who are white. The immediate goal now centers less on civil rights law and more on costly anti-poverty measures. The power base of the movement has moved out from the college campus, which supplied the manpower for the lunch counter sit-ins of the early 1960s, to include millions of angry poor in big city ghettos.
The most striking change has been the increase of violence and the threat of more bloodshed to ...